Worried that the seal pup, or its parents, would be at risk of getting hit by the train when they need to cross the tracks. Have reported it to Doc.
Somehow got all the way up the building and into the dog's water bowl.
A small (30-35 kg) stiped marlin caught on a lure near a school of small (less than 1 kg) skipjack tuna. Released. Water depth 176 m.
Large patch of parasitic copepods (?Gloiopotes huttoni) above the anal fin.
UW images are frame grabs from a GoPro Hero5.
Three oceanic manta rays feeding in dense krill.
Dead on beach
Auckland CBD.
Ex dead wood of Eucalyptus microcorys, in Albert Park.
Dead fur seal, brown stained teeth visible in jaw. Oreti Beach.
Spionidae?
There were fields of these on the edge of the reef. About 10mm high.
Fish in the foreground. A large school of mixed Scorpis violacea and Girella tricuspidata feeding at the surface.
65 SIPO seen sub roosting on the lagoon. Unusual to see them here but there was human disturbance on their usual roosting on the end of the spit.